Story: Liquor laws

More links and websites

• Alcohol New Zealand

  Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand (ALAC) is a Crown entity that aims to reduce misuse of alcohol.

• Liquor Licensing Authority

  The Liquor Licensing Authority makes decisions on applications for liquor licences and managers’ certificates that have been referred to it by district licensing agencies.

• Liquor review report of the advisory committee

  The 1997 report of an advisory committee that considered public submissions in response to a review of the Sale of Liquor Act.

• Removing temptation: New Zealand’s alcohol restrictions, 1881–2005

  A 2006 PhD thesis by Paul Christoffel.

• Review of regulatory framework for the sale and supply of liquor

  This section of the Law Commission’s website looks at their work on reviewing liquor laws and regulation.

• Temperance movement

  The section of the NZ History website looks at the history of the anti-alcohol movement in New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Bollinger, Conrad. Grog’s own country: the story of liquor licensing in New Zealand. Auckland: Minerva, 1967.
• Christoffel, Paul. ‘Prohibition and the myth of 1919.’ New Zealand Journal of History 42, no. 2 (2008), pp. 154–175.
• Eldred-Grigg, Stevan. Pleasures of the flesh: sex and drugs in colonial New Zealand, 1840–1915. Wellington: Reed, 1984.
• The sale of liquor in New Zealand: report of the Working Party on Liquor. Wellington: Department of Justice, 1986.